Dear Wix Forum members. I run a martial arts school and fitness Training. Often I have siblings training together or in different classes. a few the parents are also attending classes. Currently we ask that each member has an individual login and account. Which is annoying for the mums registering multiple kids for classes as they have to log out and in again with different accounts, emails and passwords. I would like that each child / family member has there own profile for bookings, exams and attendance etc… Is this possible? To have like a main family account with sub accounts for the each family member? I am sure I am not the only fitness/martial arts school with this problem. Thank you
Peter
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I have the exact same issue with registrations for art classes where parents have multiple kids. Bookings only adds a single contact (for the parent/their email) with no way to manage their kids. The registration takes separate participant name and kids names but doesn’t pass the kids names through to contacts (because it’s the same email address) or give the parent an easy way to manage bookings for their kids.
Did you ever find an answer to this question?
Hi Barbara, no answer or solution as of yet. I don’t know code and not great with Database stuff, so will have to hang around until wix develops something.
So we’re stuck in the same boat waiting then. Thanks anyway for your answer!
Hey, any updates? We are wanting to add kids into our system but no idea where to start
I am interested too, to be able to link people (husband/wife/partner children ).
The goal is that parents of the family can manage other member profiles and registrations…
This is a problem for anyone who has a class. If the student doesn’t pay for the class - it’s a gift, their parent pays, etc - then the teachers don’t know who will be attending and how to contact them directly (rather than giving their parent a message to pass on, for example). I have language classes, and my teen-aged students have to email me their contact info after the class starts. Many of them don’t have the same last name as their parent, so it gets very confusing trying to match the payment to the student. The only data I get is the parent’s name and contact info. How has this question not been addressed in at least 2 years?!
Hi Melissa. I didn’t see this post and created a new post specific to createBooking (Unexpected Behavior - createBooking). I have a children’s gym - we run classes across 8-11 weeks (school term). Most of the children are under 16 and do not have their own email address. Their parents book and pay for their classes (I’m calling them classes - but wix-booking terminology is Course).
I have setup a custom booking workflow:
- Parent searches for a class and is then asked who the class is for: ‘Myself’, one of their children (first name, last name, and email - usually the same as the parent’s - saved to parent’s contact details as custom fields), or ‘Someone Else’ (which prompts adding a new child).
- Call contacts.queryContacts() (or contacts.createContact() if they added a new child) to get the contact Id of the child.
- Call createBooking() using the child’s first name, last name, email address, and contact Id.
Right now the result is a booking is created for the child with no link to the contact. I believe this is because the logic for createBooking only uses email (which has to be unique) to match to a contact. If the matching logic was changed to use one of the following I believe that would enable the parent/child booking relationship we need:
- Match on the contact Id that is being passed to createBooking;
- Match on first name, last name, and email address
Or there may be another way Wix developers can unlock this use case!
Thanks for your help 
I just saw your answer. I think I see what you are doing. It seems like a lot of work (aren’t there a lot of people with this problem?) but at least it’s a workaround and a step in the right direction. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me!
Melissa
